Accenture Acquires Kolle Rebbe

Accenture has been balancing organic growth and M&A deals to expand its cloud, security and digital transformation revenues.

The company’s latest deal comes from Germany, where it is acquiring Hamburg-based agency Kolle Rebbe. Founded in 1994, Kolle Rebbe provides its clients cross-channel advertising campaigns and digital content. The firm will be folded into the Accenture Interactive division, strengthening “its ability to create and deliver integrated brand experiences for clients in Germany and across other geographies,” the company said.

Kogentix, an IT consulting firm loaded with more than 220 big data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) experts.

Perficient Acquires Elixiter

Perficient is buying Elixiter, a Marketo partner and marketing consultancy with about $6 million in annual revenue. Perficient gains marketing cloud expertise, digital marketing and marketing automation services, and strategic client relationships, the company says. Roughly 40 consulting, technology, sales, and general and administrative professionals join Perficient as part of the deal.

In its most recent quarter, Perficient revenues were $123.9 million, up slightly from $123.7 million in the corresponding quarter last year. The company’s key enterprise IT partners include IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Adope and Salesforce.

Perficient has acquired multiple companies in the past year or so– including:

TCS Acquires W12 Studios

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is acquiring London-based digital design company W12 Studios for an undisclosed sum. TCS became the first India-based IT outsourcing company to cross the $100 billion valuation threshold in April 2018.

The W12 deal marks TCS’s first digital acquisition.

W12, founded in 2012, will bring its design capabilities to TCS Interactive’s portfolio of services to help clients “deliver unique digital experiences across the entire user journey,” the company said. W12, which was founded in 2012, will continue to operate under the same name and leadership, the company said.

Agency Acquisitions

Among the key digital agency trends IT service providers are trying to monetize:

augmented reality that blend our physical world with digital experiences;

conversational user interfaces like Amazon Alexa; and

personalized and hyper-targeted ad campaigns.

Still, blending the worlds or IT and creative digital services isn’t easy. During the dot-com boom, dozens of so-called Web integrators emerged with advertising and marketing know-how. Popular names at the time included Razorfish, IXL, marchFIRST, Sapient, Scient, Viant. Many of those firms collapsed during the dot-com implosion.

Additional insights from Joe Panettieri.

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